Trump to pull U.S. from historic Paris climate agreement breaking ranks with more than 190 countries
Source: The Washington Post
By Washington Post Staff June 1 at 2:47 PM
President Trump will make good on a campaign promise to cancel the Paris climate agreement, officials say, breaking away from a global effort to reduce greenhouse gases.
The decision followed an intense struggle within the administration over the fate of the agreement, with Ivanka Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and business leaders urging the president to remain a party to the accord, and conservatives such as Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt calling for an exit.
Business leaders including Apple's Tim Cook and Teslas Elon Musk had also lobbied Trump, arguing that the Paris accord's "bottom-up" approach gave the U.S. latitude to adjust its targets and remain within the agreement. The United States will join two other nations Syria and Nicaragua in the U.N. climate group that do not participate in the accord.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/06/01/trump-to-pull-u-s-from-historic-paris-climate-agreement-breaking-ranks-with-more-than-190-countries/
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UPDATE:
Trump to announce U.S. will exit Paris climate deal
By Philip Rucker and Chris Mooney June 1 at 2:49 PM
President Trump will announce Thursday afternoon that he is withdrawing the United States from the landmark Paris climate agreement, the White House has told allies, a move that honors a campaign promise but risks rupturing global alliances and disappointing both environmentalists and corporate titans.
The Paris Accord is a BAD deal for Americans, and the Presidents action today is keeping his campaign promise to put American workers first, read a White House memo to supporters explaing the presidents decision. The Accord was negotiated poorly by the Obama Administration and signed out of desperation.
The U.S. exit from the climate pact could raise doubts about the commitment of the worlds largest economy to curbing global warming and make it more difficult to hold other nations to their environmental commitments.
All but two countries Nicaragua and Syria signed onto the 2015 accord, which was a signature diplomatic achievement for President Barack Obama.
The Paris agreement has long divided the Trump administration, with the president taking much of the spring to make up his mind amid an intense campaign by both sides to influence his decision.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-to-announce-us-will-exit-paris-climate-deal/2017/06/01/fbcb0196-46da-11e7-bcde-624ad94170ab_story.html
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UPDATE 2
‘We’re Getting Out’: Trump Announces Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord
By MATT SHUHAM Published JUNE 1, 2017 3:43 PM
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris climate accord, making America one of three countries not to participate in the historic agreement to combat climate change.
“In order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord,” Trump said in the White House Rose Garden. “But begin negotiations to re-enter either the Paris accord or a, really, entirely new transaction on terms that are fair to the United States, its businesses, its workers, its people, its taxpayers.”
“So we’re getting out, but we will start to negotiate and we will see if we can make a deal that’s fair,” he continued. “And if we can, that’s great. And if we can’t, that’s fine.”
The President complained about China and India’s own stated emissions targets under the deal, saying they were unfair to the United States. And he suggested that the rest of the world had duped the United States into signing onto the deal — which the United States itself, under President Barack Obama, was instrumental in establishing — in order to deal an economic blow.
“This agreement is less about the climate and more about other countries gaining a financial advantage over the United States,” he said. “The rest of the world applauded when we signed the Paris Agreement. They went wild. They were so happy, for the simple reason that it put our country, the United States of America, which we all love, at a very, very big economic disadvantage.”
more
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-announces-withdrawal-paris-climate-agreement
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I hoped he planned this elaborate garden-side meeting to announce he had seen the light and was going to abide by the treaty. Huge companies took out an ad urging him to stay in and MSNBC reported some Hollywood-types were tweeting him to do the same. Even ivanka was reportedly for it.
I thought this was the one. 
Never before, never again.
Even the "adults" like McMaster have bought into
Trump's "the world is a competition arena, not
a communty" mindset. 
& question, "How does that MAGA?" 
So today he fired Paris. 
